Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 57

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

goashe.com

GoAshe - The Community Website for Ashe County, Jefferson, and West Jefferson, NC

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

949 ms

goashe.com screenshot

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GoAshe Ashe business directory, free classifieds, and free personals for Ashe County, Jefferson, and West Jefferson, NC. Ashe County, NC

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goashe.com page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goashe.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,220 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

goashe.com

168 ms

goashe.com

172 ms

www.goashe.com

390 ms

styles_uni.css

58 ms

javascript.js

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Goashe.com, 12% (9 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 9% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

897.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Goashe.com main page is 1.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 797.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 107.9 kB

  • Original 125.5 kB
  • After minification 111.6 kB
  • After compression 17.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.9 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 107.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 797.2 kB
  • After minification 793.5 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Go Ashe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 30.2 kB

  • Original 114.4 kB
  • After minification 114.4 kB
  • After compression 84.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 30.2 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 3.7 kB
  • After compression 2.6 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Goashe.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (59%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go Ashe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

goashe.com accessibility score

57

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

goashe.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

goashe.com SEO score

57

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Goashe.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Goashe.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Go Ashe. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: